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PATENT OFFiCE.

JOHN BEARDON, OF IONE CITY, CALIFORNIA.

WINDOW-SCREEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 238,967, dated March 15, 1881.

Application filed August 7, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN REARDON, of Ione Oity, county of Amador, and State of California, have invented an Improved VVindow- Screen; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to an improved adjustable window-screen and it consists of a screen, of any suitable material, secured within a metallic frame, which is adapted to slide upon flanged guides secured to the casings, so that the screen may move close to the sash,

and move through the entire space, from the top to the. bottom, of the window-opening, and so that it may be used as a screen at either the top or bottom of said opening, in combinationwith laterally-sliding adjustable guide-pieces and holding-screws, by means of which the screen is made to fit window-frames of different widths, the limits to whose dimensions are determined by the length of the slot.

The object of my invention is to provide screens which can be adjusted to more than one size of casement, and which can be used at pleasure as a screen for the upper half of the frame or for the lower half.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of awindow-frame with my invention. Figs. 2 and 4 are details of construction. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the frame. Fig. 5 shows the manner of securing the wire screen. I

A is the window-frame, provided with the upper sash, B, and the lower sash, 0, working in the ordinary manner.

To the sash guide-strips E, I attach, by the screws on, the strips of angle-iron F, extending the entire height of the easement. On these strips F the screen S slides from the bottom to the top. It can be held in any position, either at the top as an upper sash-screen or at the bottom as a lower one, or at a point midway between the two, by means of a catch or look at one side, or any convenient device, and can be drawn upbya pulley, as at H, by

the cord J, or can be lifted as one may feel inclined. My screen may be made of any suitable material, and it is preferably secured in metal frames by any suitable means. I havein the present case shown the edges of the screen material folded under the edge of the metal,

which is again folded upon itself, thus holding the screen firmly, and making it a stiff and thin frame.

The screen S is provided at each corner, on the front side, with the screws 12, working in the slots 0 and pinning on the back side, the adjustable guide-clasps 01, provided with shoulders 6, made to rest against the projecting side ofthe strip of an gle-iron F, and, by means of the screws 1), said guide-clasps are drawn tight, and made to clasp the projecting edge of the an gleiron, between them and the frame of the screen, whereby the screen is held in position to slide up or down, as above shown. These adjustable guide-clasps cl are provided with slots K, extending from their inward. ends,which slide on thepins g, fastened to the screen-frame, as shown in Fig. 4, whereby they are rendered adjustable. By the device of the shoulders c in these adjustable guide-clasps, and the holding-screw moving in the lateral slots, the guiding-shoulders of the screen-frame can be extended to the limit of the slot 0, whereby the same screen may be made to fit different sizes of window-frames. To adjust this screen in this way I loosen the screws and push them, together with the adjustable guideclasps, into which they screw, to the outer limit of the slots. The ends of the guides are then extended beyond the edge of the screen frame, with their shoulders pressed closely against the edge of the angle-iron; and when the window-frame is the widest which the screen will fit the angle-iron is grasped on its extreme inner edge, between the guides and the outer edge of the screen-frame, instead of having the screen-frame fit snugly against the angle of the strip. The screen is thus held firmly, and may be raised or lowered, as above shown.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with the continuous strips of angle-iron F, attached to the window-frame A, as shown,the screen S, provided at its four corners with the slots 0, and the adjustable guide-clasps d, fastened, by slot K and pin 9, to the back side of the screen-frame, and having the shoulders e, restingaga-inst the edge of the guiding-strip F, whereby the 'guidestrip is clasped and the screen made to fit dif ferent sizes of window-frames, substantially as shown.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

JOHN REARDON.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. STRONG, S. H. NoURsE. 

